Hong Kong’s Baptist University bans students from using ChatGPT for class work

In letter sent to students, university warns students they will commit plagiarism if they take words or ideas from other sources, including ChatGPT. University of Hong Kong last week told students they were temporarily banned from using AI-powered chatbots and said long-term policy would need to be hammered out. — SCMP

Baptist University has become the second higher education institution in Hong Kong to ban students from using the controversial artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in their assignments due to concerns over plagiarism.

In a letter sent to all students on Wednesday, university vice-president of teaching and learning Albert Chau Wai-lap warned students they would commit plagiarism if they took words or ideas from other sources, including ChatGPT and other AI technologies and presented them as their own.